The Digital Newsstand Needs to Recognize Its Real Rivals
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[responsive][/responsive]The digital newsstand has failed to deliver on the lofty expectations of just a few years ago. We reported back in August that this revolution will not be tabletized, and we were proven right again during the iPhone 6 launch....
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Moody’s Report As Seen By Darwin
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[responsive][/responsive]Ad revenues are down, digital subscriptions are leveling out and the magazine industry looks pretty bleak, according to credit ratings service Moody’s. But what are we really seeing? “Our outlook for the US Newspapers and Magazines sector is negative,” the...
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“If Only You Knew Anything About Actual Publishing…”
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[responsive][/responsive] Understanding the business of small magazines is no easy feat. So when Caroline O’Donovan of the Neiman Journalism Lab dove into the topic, she went right to the source.  Her interview with little magazine veteran and publisher of Lapham’s...
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Some Bad Advice on Digital-First Publishing
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[responsive][/responsive]“Gone are the days when people simply picked up a newspaper, magazine or turned on the television for entertainment, education or news,” writes Mary Hiers in Recruitment ADVisor. “Now more than an ever, people are turning to digital devices. According...
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Apples to Apples: But Could They Publish?
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[responsive][/responsive]“If Apple were a newspaper or a magazine company within a decade it would no longer be a newspaper or magazine company.” So states D. B. Hebbard in Talking New Media, citing the transformation of the company from a personal...
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Why Magazines? 
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[responsive][/responsive] In a January [insert year here] article, tabloid reporter [insert writer’s name here] wrote of the [insert media of your choice here] industry in a state of transition, waking up to the reality of a new medium that had...
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Monocle’s $115 Million Value Proves Luxury Publishing is Doing Just Fine
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[responsive][/responsive]Monocle, the prestige lifestyle magazine, has received a $10 million investment from Japanese newspaper publishers Nikkei, Inc. Monocle is one of several magazines in this high-end sector that is thriving. “This success is in part driven by strong ad sales...
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Publishing is Far From Dying, Says Harvard Biz Review
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The skeptics chant that the future of publishing is bleak and publishers are not making money. Their comments are loud, vocal and sadly lacking in fact, according to Greg Satell of the Harvard Business Review. “These sentiments are common, but...
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Tech Investments Make For Happy Publishers
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After the doldrums of 2008 – 2011, investment in manufacturing and production technology in our industry saw a spike up in 2012, and the trend continued last year according to industry stats. Bill Mickey reports in Folio: that “satisfaction levels...
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The Resilience of the Printed Magazine Explained
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Pat Henry of What They Think recently interviewed CDS Global's Malcolm Netburn about the magazine industry. His aim was to get Netburn’s take on why the magazine industry is so resilient, with hundreds of new launches happening in a time when the...
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